Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1887-04-28
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1CNA oheJ Ass""-
last Friday.
sI,oht shooks Of earthquake continue
10 be reported at various points IN 'he
Interior Of Mexico.
q. D. Post, q prominent merchant OF
centreyille, Pa, was killed Tuesday morn
ing by kick from colt.
Frank Close fell upon circular saw Of
Morayia, N. T., Thursday, and his head
and body were split In two the enure
length.
A derrick upon the new capitol terrace
in Washington fell Tuesday morning IN
turing two men, one named hehy' pef-
haps fatally.
Dr.A.J. Grant, a notorious bigamist, died
in the Jail at Cambridge, Mass, Tuesday
morning. Besides the charges on when
be was awaiting trial several others mao
accumulated against him.
Tha expert accountant is overhauling
tho books of Michael II. Murphy, water
registrar of Hoboken, who disappeared
week ago. 1t is now thought his steal
inps will amount to 100000.
A new vault is TO be constructed in the
Treasury building at Washington TO 10,
commodate the accumulation OF standard
dollars. 1t will have storage capacity
| Of LOG, 600, 900 of those coins.
The report that the cholera has ap-
naared al Mazatlan and Guaymas, In
| Mexico, is denied by the governor OIL
Sonora who SAWS he will trace and prose-
cute the author OF the report.
r.. P. Phelps, a we'll known member OF
the bar, and for many years prominent
member of the Baltimore Conference OF
| the Methodist Episcopal church, died
suddenly in Washington on Sunday even
ing
| DR.. Henry Detweiler, said TO have been
the first homeopathic physician in Penn.
avlyania, died Thursday in Easton, aged
% years. He visited his patients until
two weeks ago, when he was injured BY .
fall on the sidewalk.
A. B. Falk Of New York City, arrived
in Chicago on Monday night and put NJ
at hotel. During the night his room
was entered, and his gold watch anf
chain, valued at $l75, were stolen, with
small sum of money.
The chief of. police of Nogales, Arizona
! has received telegram Jing that tn
4 cholera is raging in the Mexican town o
\ MazaIlan, and has broken out at Quay
mas. People are leaving the infecte'
districts in large numbers.
A dispatch from the City Of Mexic
!, saws that Lieutenant Colonel Sunoz of tn
6 Eighth Battalion, and M. M. Zavalla
Musical Director attached 90 the CON
:, Inand, fought duel. AT the word bot
\ fired at once, and both fell dead.
The rains which have filed the channt
of Brazos river, in western Texas, putin
an end to the drought, have brougf
down hundreds of dead cattle, and th
stream OF Waco is covered with decou
5 posing carcasses. Sickness is feared.
p George Clark, reputed millionaire Ian
owner and hop dealer of Springfield, o
IS seQo county, N. Y, made an assignmei
a last week. He owned large tracts Of Ian
in Otsego and several other countie
There are 100000 in unsatished jud
ments against him.
l. The Commissioner of Indian Aifai
has returned to Washington from I
IN Louis, whittier he went to award contrac
> for furnishing the Indian service wi
beef, flour and other articles Of subsii
~ | tuCts 1nS phiNAi no oluAo AAAa
! lower than for some years.
=. Joseph Il. Heisler died Thursday
81 Minersville, Pa, aged ~ years, Fro
X. 1862 until the close of the war he "
marshal Of the coal region police and
u terror to deserters, bounty jumpers,
Dir After the war he was appointed oh
marshal of the coal and iron police, /
III resigned two years ago.
Id Mrs. Sarah Howe, banker" who
~ Gently fled from Boston with $50, 900,
v proceeds of swindling, went TO st. Jol
1t N. b., and rented q house there TO
. year. Her identity being discovered {
4 took Tuesday night weeks train
O. Quebec, and it is supposed she will j
the American colony of thieves and swiI
lers in Montreal.
IL David Preston, banker and lead
u Prohibitionist, died suddenly in Deti
~ Sunday of heart disease. He had b
ir- a delegate to several general conferen
nj OF the Methodist Episcopal Church,
in 1881 was delegate to the Ecumen
Council at London. In 1884 he
p-nbihiticy- TH- ,. 80 t.t- .lF a0r
IN "a GHlelg mia. Out., III lay, \
X Ia.uh u1HghetS and Ghts ta H@f
lily neighbours daughter, died from ca
ika parsnips which had been poisoned.
ny Dougherty found the parsuips inside
er. fence, where they had been throw